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Haight-Ashbury

American  
[heyt-ash-ber-ee, -buh-ree] / ˈheɪtˈæʃ bɛr i, -bə ri /

noun

  1. a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.


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The free-form rock station KSAN, the voice of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, threw him off the air for interviewing workers who had been fired by one of the station’s sponsors.

From New York Times Jun. 3, 2024

He spoke by phone from San Francisco, where he’s lived in the Haight-Ashbury since age 11.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2022

Glover never left his roots — literally; he still lives 12 blocks from the house where he grew up in Haight-Ashbury.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2022

Hammerstrom, a former ballet dancer, ran with a number of poets while living in the Haight-Ashbury district, San Francisco’s hippie mecca, during the ’60s.

From Seattle Times Feb. 17, 2022

She sat down on a bench outside Haight-Ashbury Fitness.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

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